SOL

Immerse yourself in an abysmal and magnificent nothing in which there is no sense of time. A radical minimalism, generated by sensory deprivation, sublimely takes visitors into physically tangible border areas along subjective and objective reality.

After the live performance FEED (2005/06) from the installation ZEE (2008), SOL is Kurt Hentschläger's third phenomenological work that revolves around human perception and its psychology as well as the longing for sublime, emotional experiences. She celebrates the non-moment, the loss of control and the shift in perception, being thrown back on oneself, the hic et nunc.

SOL will premiere on January 27, 2017 as part of the CTM Festival at Halle am Berghain, Berlin. The exhibition is curated by Isabelle Meiffert. After that, SOL will e.g. shown at OK Linz/Austria and at the Recombinant Festival, San Francisco/USA.
The first monographic publication Splendid Voids on the work of Kurt Hentschläger will be published for the premiere of SOL. It contains a text by the art critic Roger Denson, is designed by Detlev Pusch and edited by Isabelle Meiffert.

Kurt Hentschläger creates immersive audiovisual installations and performances. Between 1992 and 2003 he was part of the artist duo Granular-Synthesis. His work has been exhibited internationally, to date e.g. at the Venice Biennale, the Venice Biennale for Theater, at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, PS1 New York, Creative Time, Inc. New York, MAC – Musée d'Art Contemporain Montreal, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, ZKM Karlsruhe, Chinese National Museum, Beijing, National Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, ICC Tokyo, Arte Alameda Mexico City, Sharjah Art Foundation and MONA – Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania. Born in Linz/Austria, the artist currently lives and works in New York.